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- Title
Pyemotes tritici (Acari: Pyemotidae): a parasitoid of Agrilus auroguttatus and Agrilus coxalis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in the southwestern United States of America and southern Mexico.
- Authors
Coleman, Tom W.; Jones, Michael I.; Hoddle, Mark S.; Haavik, Laurel J.; Moser, John C.; Flint, Mary L.; Seybold, Steven J.
- Abstract
The straw itch mite, Pyemotes tritici Lagrèze-Fossat and Montané (Acari: Pyemotidae), was discovered parasitising the goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus Schaeffer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), an invasive exotic species to California, United States of America, and the Mexican goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus coxalis Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), during surveys for natural enemies for a classical biological control programme for A. auroguttatus. Pyemotes tritici caused low levels of mortality to each species of flatheaded borer, but it will likely not be a good candidate for a biological control programme because it is a generalist parasitoid with deleterious human health effects.
- Subjects
MITES; ARACHNIDA; PYEMOTIDAE; ACARIFORMES; AGRILUS
- Publication
Canadian Entomologist, 2015, Vol 147, Issue 2, p244
- ISSN
0008-347X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4039/tce.2014.38